I recently bought an ASUS eee 701 netbook on eBay. The seller included Puppy 4.2 on a media card in the netbook, which appears to be the OS the seller used before wiping the netbook for sale.

The network wizard lists one interface, eth0, already associated with module atl2, and if I plug in a network cable, I can easily configure this interface with DHCP, and I have Internet connectivity after that.

However, for this netbook to be useful to me, I have to have WiFi. I used AutoProbe to load all the modules on the media card (acx-mac80211, acx, ath_pci, atl2, prism2_usb, rt2860sta, rt2870sta), but none of them cause any additional interfaces to appear. The seller says that it was no problem to use the network wizard to get the interface appear when first setting it up "some time ago".

There is a WiFi light on the front edge of the keyboard, and it turns on and off with Fn-F2. I have tried loading modules with the light on and off (mostly on), but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

I also tried (three times) to install the PET in the second message of this thread. Each time the netbook freezes a couple moments after installing the PET ("PETget: updating menu, please wait"), and I can do nothing but switch it off.

I have attached the list of PCI cards apparently installed in this netbook.

Can someone please suggest something else I should try to get WiFi working on this netbook?

Thanks for the suggestions! I downloaded Puppeee 1.0 from smokey01.com and went through the contortions required to create a bootable thumb drive (i.e. first burn a bootable CD for my Windows laptop, as the netbook in question has no CD drive). Once I booted the netbook, it found the WiFi interface immediately without my having to go through and probe drivers or anything like that.

This thread on Puppeee says "This distro is no longer maintained. Please try Saluki instead." So before I went with Puppeee I tried to install Saluki, but failed because I didn't realize at the time that I had to make the thumb drive bootable. That was something I only discovered later after hours of Googling. It's not made obvious at the same place where I would download the ISOs. I thought I could just mount the ISO on my Windows laptop and merely copy its contents to the thumb drive.

You may scoff, but although I have used (and developed software on) computers running Unix (RHEL, Solaris, BSD, etc) off and on for 25 years, I have never before this month owned a Unix computer. Before, I always relied on my employer (or school) to install and configure the OS.

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